Fastening device



(No Model.)

S. G. TEMPLE.

FASTENING DEVIGE.

No. 569,308. Patented Oct. 13, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

SIMPSON GRANT TEMPLE, OF NOTTINGHAM, OHIO.

FASTENING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 569,308, dated October 13, 1896.

Application filed January 21, 1896. Serial No. 576,270. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SIMPSON GRANT TEM- PLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Nottingham, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to provide a clamp or holder for shoe-laces, being especially designed to provide a tight and sure means of securing the shoe-lace of ashoe after the shoe has been laced in the usual manner.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the shoe in perspective the tongue of which is provided with my improved fastening clamp or catch. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 4 is a side view of the same.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 2 and 4, A is the base. 13 is a clamp-piece bent over parallel with the base A, O 0 being the eyelet-holes for attaching and fastening the clamp to the tongue or other portion of the shoe.

In stamping out or otherwise forming my clamp or catch I bend downward the edges of the upper portion B, and I also bend upward the edges of the lower portion A, so as to form a contracted portion of the hook-channel, which is intended to confine the lace in the bottom of the hook portion D.

The hook or clamp is used in the following way: After lacing up the shoe the laces are tied together into a comparativelyloose knot. Both laces are then drawn up tightly until the knot is above the opening of the hook or clamp, when both laces are passed through the hooking-space, past the contracted portion E, into the bottom of the hooking-channel D. The knot being of much greater diameter than the space between the base A and the clamping-part B is held above the hook or clamp and thus holds the shoe laced up tightly and at the same time prevents the knot from becoming untied.

By this means I provide a cheap, simple, and effective holder or clamp for retaining and holding tightly in position the laces of a boot or shoe.

What I claim as new is As an improved article of manufacture, a shoe-lace fastener, constructed substantially as herein shown and described, consisting of a thin metal plate bent over upon itself, having eyelet-holes for attaching it to the shoe tongue formed in the lower portion and having edges of the lower portion bent upward and those of the upper portion bent clownward to form a contracted space between the two portions, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name,in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 16th day of January, 1896.

SIMPSON GRANT TEMPLE.

\Vitnesses:

CARRIE DILLE, MARY DILLE. 

